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Comment Re:Any materialized predictions? (Re:Sudden?) (Score 0, Troll) 268

You lazy fucker.

Hugs and kisses, hater.

you start to act like a petulant child

At least, a child, however petulant, would not use words like "fucker".

Yes, I am lazy — but the burden of proof is not on me, it is on those people, who want me to change my ways to fight a problem. They (including you) have to prove, the problem exists in the first place.

So, instead of posting attacks on my (deeply flawed) person, how about you either put up — the format I am asking for is perfectly reasonable — or shut up?..

Comment Re:Any materialized predictions? (Re:Sudden?) (Score 0) 268

Most of the model predict an average earth temperature around 290K.

I'm not asking for a "model" — I just want to see a successful prediction. And I am willing to consider "within 80%" as "successful".

They are therefore all correct, as the measured mean earth temperature is each year between 80% of this value and 120% of it.

Once I see citations of successful predictions, we can switch into discussing their usefulness. But we aren't there yet, despite there being so many responses here already...

my comment meets your expectation

Your comment included no links at all and therefore can not possibly meet my expectations. FAIL.

Comment Re:Any materialized predictions? (Re:Sudden?) (Score -1) 268

Link points to a report which contains numerous links

Whether true or not, that's not, what I was asking for.

actual reports and paper providing what was asked.

If this were true, you — and countless others bothering to reply in this subthread — would've been able to form the links into the shape I ask for in minutes. Just to prove me wrong. And yet, despite there being so many responses already, nobody has done it...

Comment Re:Any materialized predictions? (Re:Sudden?) (Score 1) 268

That would only be possible with a simple 'binary' prediction

Yes, I would accept some of such. For example: "By 2015 Arctic will be ice-free". Do you have any?

Models make specific predictions over a period of time, when most of the predictions made by the model are accurate to a reasonable degree (no model is perfect).

You are right, no model is perfect. Can you link to a prediction, that materialized within, say, 80% of the predicted value(s)?

Comment Haters gonna hate (Any materialized predictions?) (Score -1, Troll) 268

its just Mi the Ignorant Bigot

Ah, ad-hominems, they prove everything!

no matter how many times he's proven wrong.

If I really had been, you would've included those link-pairs I asked for — for everyone's benefit... In fact, you would, likely, have linked to the post refuting me on this matter in your signature! But you can't, because it was never done. So far two people tries to answer my challenge and both failed.

About that global cooling theory: One article in Newsweek 40 years ago.

Here is another, just FYI.

Comment Strangely mixed signals here (Score 2, Interesting) 268

The post accepted by Slashdot cites European Space Agency's satellite as evidence of ice-loss.

And earlier submission citing NASA's satellites leading to the opposite conclusion was not accepted. Kind a strange for a normally unabashedly US-centric Slashdot to so openly favour European satellite-data over American — makes one suspect a certain pre-existing bias...

I don't see any substantial changes here, do you?

Comment Any materialized predictions? (Re:Sudden?) (Score -1, Troll) 268

People have been talking about global warming/climate change/politically-correct-term since the last two decades but some countries just keep their head in the sand.

They certainly have. But, to the best of my knowledge, none of the actual predictions made over these years by the "alarmists" have ever materialized.

Would you care to prove the above statement wrong? Try to post a list of link-pairs: first link in each pair shall point to a prediction and the second — to its materializing... Note, that entries containing only the latter will not be accepted — when a result is known, it is too easy to find somebody having "predicted" it.

The prediction and the materialization would have to be at least 3 years apart too — successfully predicting tomorrow's weather does not count, that is.

Game?

Comment Re:And most don't care (Score 1) 94

Some people within the United States may disagree with you. [blacklivesmatter.com]

Seriously? BlackLivesMatter? If you have to refer to a "movement" born out of a lie — that the robber Michael Brown, supposedly, had his arms up when he was shot — your whole position gets seriously compromised.

Pot, meet Kettle. Kettle, meet Pot. [mxgm.org]

An inflammatory collection of lies and innuendo based, once again, on the sorry fate of another thug, whose reaction to being followed in the street was to "whoop the shit out of the cracker".

If, while alleging "historical" and "nationwide" victimhood, you don't have decent poster-boys, something must be wrong with your premise.

The anonymous GP is right: we aren't actively killing nor seriously repressing a large number of our own people. Not usually. And if/when it happens, it is a cause of outrage here in the US, whereas in China, North Korea, Cuba or under ISIS it is accepted, grudgingly or otherwise...

But then, I suppose that proverbial kettle of Joseph McCarthy and the pot of Lavrenty Beria are equally "black" to you too...

Submission + - Rand Paul wraps up NSA "filibuster" after 10 hours (cbsnews.com)

mpicpp writes: After standing on the Senate floor for more than 10 hours in protest of the National Security Agency's sweeping surveillance programs, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, wrapped up his so-called "filibuster" just after Midnight on Thursday morning.

NSA illegal spying and data collection of innocent Americans must end. Thank you all for standing with me. #StandwithRand

— Dr. Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 21, 2015
The senator and 2016 presidential candidate staged the talkathon ahead of the Senate's consideration of legislation to extend the NSA's authority to collect phone records in bulk. The controversial surveillance program — which has been deemed illegal by one federal court — is supposedly authorized by Section 215 of the Patriot Act. That section of the law is set to expire on June 1, giving Congress little time to renew it.

Paul started his "filibuster" against an extension of the Patriot Act on Wednesday afternoon, even though the Senate was actually in the middle of debate time on an entirely different issue — trade authority. Paul's efforts likely slowed down Senate business — lawmakers are trying to finish a few important bills before taking off for a weeklong recess — but the Senate is still expected to take up legislation to deal with the expiring NSA program.

Comment Re:How does one tell the difference? (Score 5, Interesting) 103

Yes, I am curious too. That and the high concentration of such "tools" in one spot. Perhaps, an early colony existed around the lake?

Were they tools? According to the legend under one of the images in TFA: "Both the core and the flake display a series of dispersed percussion marks" and another says "Hammerstone showing isolated impact points". If that's true — and the free image is too small to say for sure — the rocks were used to hit something hard, Ok. And such use of rocks, or sticks, or anything not part of body is quite amazing for any creature, although Homo Anything aren't unique in this.

But I don't think, such use makes them officially "hammers" and "anvils", to be honest. For it does not appear, the "tools" themselves were deliberately worked on: the creatures grabbed whatever lied around and used it...

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